Carnival Season

Carnival Season were a band in the wrong place at the wrong time; if they'd been based in Seattle in 1988 or Minneapolis in 1983, they would have fit right in with their peers, but in Birmingham, AL in 1985, their mixture of hard rock guitar, thoughtful but streetwise lyrics, and tunes that were aggressive and tuneful at once made them an anomaly, and in a community where alternative rock had trouble gaining a foothold, they never gained the larger audience their music deserved. Originally named Karnival Season, the band was formed in 1984 by guitarist and singer Tim Boykin ...